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Overlapping Land Tenure Stories: Ambiguity in Port Vila's Urban Precarity
Migrants to Port Vila from elsewhere in Vanuatu and the customary owners of the land to which they move make agreements about land tenure. However, land can hold multiple meanings which can both support and undermine attempts to create durable agreements. We apply concepts of ambiguity and urban precarity to land in Vanuatu, which itself is already polysemic, to argue that ni-Vanuatu people perpetuate and negotiate multiple, sometimes contradictory meanings, to fulfill their various interests. Drawing on interviews with migrants and customary land owners, we demonstrate how people can benefit from a social context that allows for multiple narratives to coexist, even when they appear to contradict each other. However, this anthropology of ambiguity shows how it can also create new ways for disputes to occur and for powerful people to assert control.
期刊介绍:
City & Society, the journal of the Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology, is intended to foster debate and conceptual development in urban, national, and transnational anthropology, particularly in their interrelationships. It seeks to promote communication with related disciplines of interest to members of SUNTA and to develop theory from a comparative perspective.